AC9HG9K01
Year 9
Humanities and Social Sciences
AC9HG9K01 – Year 9 Humanities and Social Sciences: Biomes and food security
Strand
Knowledge and understanding
Substrand
Biomes and food security
This Content Descriptor from Year 9 Humanities and Social Sciences provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Content Description
the distribution and characteristics of biomes as regions with distinctive climates, soils, vegetation and productivity
Elaborations
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1
identifying and describing the major aquatic and terrestrial biomes of Australia and other areas of the world, and mapping their distribution
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2
interpreting and explaining patterns and trends in the productivity of the major aquatic and terrestrial biomes in Australia compared with a country in Asia
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3
explaining the effects of interconnections between environmental processes (atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere and biosphere) and human activities, such as deforestation, mining and agriculture on the characteristics of biomes
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